30 in Cinema Radeon 9600 PC/Mac card blue screen

Hi all,
I have PowerMac G5 dual 2ghz (the original one) 3gig of RAM. I just bought a 30 inch Cinema display and I also picked up the Radeon 9600 PC/Mac AGP card to up the resolution to max. I plugged the card in the AGP slot and then when I boot I get the gray screen with the apple logo and then it shifts to all blue with a cursor. The cursor will move but nothing else happens. Any idea what is up? I reinstalled the card 3 times. I put the old card back in and it works fine (just 1200x800). Not sure what else to try. Any help would be appreciated.
PowerMac G5 dual 2 ghz Mac OS X (10.4.8) 30 in cinema display

Bu sure you plugged the 30" into the DVI connector with the small "2" stamped into the metal next to it. That is the dual-link port need for full resolution. Even if you used the wrong connector, though, it should have worked, but at half resolution, so the card may be bad. Do you have any other monitor (even a VGA monitor) to try with the card? (There should have been a DVI to VGA adapter with the card.)

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